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Migas con miga. ¿Es posible la reflexión en 140 caracteres? Pues entonces en 500 también.
Me interesan cosas de lengua, literatura (cualquier tipo), antropología, programación sencilla (macros VBA, javascript, bash, batch) y educación.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/blast-exposure-brain-damage-us-navy-suicides

People exposed to explosions tend to show certain kinds of brain damage which often result in problems in thinking. One case was an instructor who taught soldiers to use hand grenades. He surely did not explode them close enough to wound him externally, but he was wounded internally nonetheless. I wonder how close to him they were when they exploded.

microblogc ,
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@rms It is very interesting. The relationship with sports could make us relate it also with other jobs where the head is exposed to concussions, shock waves or vibrations. I'm thinking about people working with jackhammers, demolition workers, miners, firefighters and policemen.

CultureDesk , to histodons group
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Edo — the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo — may have been one of the world's first large-scale ecological civilizations. From 1603 to 1868, as a result of the government's policy of not trading with outside nations, there was a scarcity of cotton and timber, which meant that everything was reused, repaired, repurposed or recycled. Traditional kimonos would become pyjamas, diapers, floor cloths and eventually fuel; candle wax drippings were remoulded, modular house design meant that floorboards could be reused; leftover straw from growing rice became sandals and rope. Here's Roman Krznaric's story for the BBC on what we should learn from this era.

https://flip.it/F.xjsd

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microblogc ,
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@CultureDesk @histodons Same in the Spanish autarchy of the 1940s. My mom, grandson of a rich man, "turned" her coat instead of buying a new one.
"Recycling" culture also involved grave stones were turned onto tables, old steam locomotives were thrashed to make metal utils, and nature was depredated.
Some children died while trying to "recycle" grenades, too.

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[2/2] … to be better at this than China.

microblogc ,
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@rms The solution could be a change in national and international laws to stablish liabilities not only to governments and soldiers who kill civilians but also to the companies that replace these "liable" soldiers with autonomous, "unliable" weapons.

Jgbird , to random
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Annas hummingbird

microblogc ,
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@Jgbird
Is that plant a Mentha pulegium?

rms , to random
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[01/02] The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has been withdrawn; it was effectively obsolete since it had not been updated. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/08/astrazeneca-withdraws-covid-19-vaccine-worldwide-citing-surplus-of-newer-vaccines

A very rare side effect killed one person who took the vaccine. We should not forget that it saved millions of lives in 2021-2022.

microblogc ,
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@rms The problem was people was not aware of this side effect. The professor who died on my country after taking the vaccine would've probably saved if doctors and patients had better information.
Not to mention the menstrual problems experienced by women (ironically, in a vaccine researched by women). Info could have leveraged the issue.
Maybe this helps researchers give better info for future vaccines.

pluralistic , to random
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Idaho®

microblogc ,
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@pluralistic I think the ® sign here tries to be the american equivalent of the european PGI (geographic protected indication). As a matter of fact, in Spain (a part of EU) some producer associations use trademarks to protect products that don't have an IGP.

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Road kill should be car kill. Nothing else on the road is doing the killing.

microblogc ,
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@CelloMomOnCars @davidho What about electric scooters? They are not reflected.

FediTips , (edited ) to random
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Mastodon DMs are not end-to-end encrypted. In theory admins could manually see DMs in their server's database. (The same is true on Twitter/X etc.)

If you want encrypted communications, I'd recommend XMPP (aka Jabber). It is federated into servers like Mastodon, but designed for encrypted messaging & calling.

There's a non-technical site to help people sign up on existing servers:

➡️ https://joinjabber.org

To start a server, there's a managed hosting service at:

➡️ https://snikket.org

microblogc ,
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@FediTips I understand that, being a Social Media focused on healthy interactions, having non-encrypted DMs is a feature (since it allows reporting abuse to server admins).

Of course, in a communication platform ot would be an anti-feature.

breadandcircuses , to random
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What do we get from Business As Usual?

One of the things we get is a colossal amount of trash — hundreds of millions of tons every year in the United States alone, most of that incinerated, piled up in landfills, or dumped in the ocean.

A huge amount of consumer waste is thrown out early in each calendar year, just after Christmas...

Around 26% of toys bought at Christmas are already being neglected by the end of January, and 40% will be thrown out within the first three months of being unwrapped. Of that, the combined weight of electronic toys comes to 3.2 billion kg, a significant proportion of the 9 billion kgs of e-waste the world produces in the same timeframe.

Data suggests that e-toys — headphones, gaming consoles, earphones, interactive toys, sound-playing books, drones, racing car sets, VR, electric trains, various robotic figures, etc. — contribute 77 times more to the e-waste problem than vapes, which are themselves a major scourge.

That's a disturbing amount of needless waste — but it's good for the economy!

FULL STORY -- https://environmentjournal.online/headlines/played-out-future-parents-post-christmas-clear-outs-electronic-toy-waste/

microblogc ,
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@breadandcircuses
I have no children, but I go to second-hand stores to buy toys for my nephews. Not only to save some money, but also to reduce waste.
(I can't avoid buying them some new toys, though).

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